{"id":153,"date":"2013-01-22T03:21:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T03:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2021-10-01T00:46:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T04:46:12","slug":"esajohns-hopkins-aim-to-deflect-an-asteroid-with-spacecraft-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"ESA\/Johns Hopkins aim to deflect an asteroid with spacecraft impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESA and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhuapl.edu\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory<\/a> (which runs several <a href=\"http:\/\/civspace.jhuapl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">space missions<\/a> including the <a href=\"http:\/\/messenger.jhuapl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Messenger<\/a> probe now orbiting Mercury) are proposing a joint experiment to test impact deflection of an asteroid. A JHU-APL spacecraft would ram into an asteroid while an ESA spacecraft would monitor the impact and its effects on the object.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Technology\/NEO\/Asteroid_deflection_mission_seeks_smashing_ideas\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">Asteroid deflection mission seeks smashing ideas &#8211; ESA &#8211; Jan.15.12<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Technology\/NEO\/High_impact_factor_space_R_D_AIDA_Call_For_Experiment_Ideas\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">High impact factor space R&amp;D : \u00a8AIDA\u00a8 Call For Experiment Ideas &#8211; ESA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/esamultimedia.esa.int\/docs\/gsp\/completed\/AIDA_MissionRationale_InterimRelease.pdf\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">Asteroid Impact &amp; Deflection: Assessment (AIDA) Mission &#8211; Opportunities and Tests in a US-Europe Space Mission Cooperation &#8211; ESA &#8211; May.25.12 (pdf)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinimages.esa.int\/Images\/2012\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Monitor_design\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"154\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=154\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Asteroid_Impact_Monitor_design_node_full_image1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"424,350\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Asteroid_Impact_Monitor_design_node_full_image[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Asteroid_Impact_Monitor_design_node_full_image1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-154\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Asteroid_Impact_Monitor_design_node_full_image1.jpg\" alt=\"Asteroid Impact Monitor Design\" width=\"424\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Asteroid_Impact_Monitor_design_node_full_image1.jpg 424w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Asteroid_Impact_Monitor_design_node_full_image1-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><br \/>\nAsteroid Impact Monitor Design\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (which runs several space missions including the Messenger probe now orbiting Mercury) are proposing a joint experiment to test impact deflection of an asteroid. A JHU-APL spacecraft would ram into an asteroid while an ESA spacecraft would monitor the impact and its effects on the object. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=153\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ESA\/Johns Hopkins aim to deflect an asteroid with spacecraft impact<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-space-infrastructure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11497,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11497","url_meta":{"origin":153,"position":0},"title":"Video: ESA AIM will watch NASA DART smack into an asteroid","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"An\u00a0earlier post\u00a0described\u00a0the\u00a0European Space Agency\u2019s\u00a0Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM), which in 2020 will send a probe\u00a0to the Didymos binary asteroid system. 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